DS2 is a good game

DS2 is a good game.

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DS2 is the worst souls game for sure and its still better than every nintendo and smash game

>random shot at Nintendo
Everytime

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Certainly better than DS3

That line is so on the nose, jesus.

Good game? Sure. A good Dark Souls game? No.

i once almost lost like over 150k souls in the winter castle
i ended up forgetting where i dropped them and ran through the entire castle looking for them
i was tense and super cautious the entire time and i was extremely relieved when i finally got them back

Damn that's true

>random shot at sony
Every other time, hypocrite.

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Still the worst Souls game.

too bad DS3 isn't

>MY shit is better than YOUR shit
Not even a nintentoddler, I was just laughing at you disregarding DS2's problems and randomly roping Nintendo in because apparently you take shits and compare them.

Wrong.

The DLCs had some of the worst bosses in the entire series
>the Gang Squad
>two frozen tigers
>Smelter Demon with a blue tinge
>Burnt Ivory King with his minions

it looks like shit
it feels like shit
and it's boring as shit
in other words dark souls 2 is shit.

Others were complete shit but I think Ivory King's gimmick was pretty nice since it encourages you to explore to free all the knights that help you in the battle and close the corrupted portals.

Based

Absolute trash bait. I'd say try harder, but I think you're already at your limit.

This
>"haha dark souls is hardcore xDDD"
They even put a FUCKING global death counter

The meme really is true. If you shit on any other From Software game the fans will agree the game has weaknesses and strengths. DS2 brainlets immediately attack DS3 instead of defending the merits of 2.

>FUCKING
whoa

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>good tutorial area
>fluid and fast combat system
>best DLC out of all 3 souls games (The Ringed City, AoA was shit)
>you can pretty much skip the entier game and only fight the lords of cinder
Nah mate DS3 is good

Ivory king was one of the best bosses i've ever played against
>First time get gangbanged by him and his adds
>Start fully exploring Loyce
>Find more and more knights
>Go fight the boss again
>One by one the knights sacrifice themselves to seal the portals
>Fight the King by myself to become a true Monarch
It was pretty good

>the Gang Squad
>two frozen tigers
>Smelter Demon with a blue tinge
Coop fights that were 10/10 when done with a bro. Was nice to actually have a challenge worth the summons.

>Burnt Ivory King with his minions
One of the most kino fights in the series.

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Dark Souls has some of the lowest of lows in the Souls franchise, but it also has some of the highest of highs
The building up and subsequent subversion of Vendrick for the story, or powerstancing for gameplay, for example

Dark souls 2 was good on its own legs.
Dark souls 2 compared to the other two was garbage

> "fluid and fast combat system"
> "it fast therefore it gud"
I want to play Dark Souls. If I wanted to play a character action game I'd play one.

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Agreed, but most first timers will probably try to fight him without rescuing the knights, so they will end up being ganked and frustrated

*Dark Souls 2 has

>"it's slow therefore it's gud"
Explain yourself

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>Miyazaki said he wanted to make DS3 the depiction of a world that has fallen apart,a post apocalyptic depiction of the true end of the age of fire and the deep onset of the age of dark
>DS2 had the more post apocalyptic feel
seriously the sense of decay and abandonment DS2 had was great
it actually made the "walk away" ending feel warranted linking the flame at that point was pointless the world was already set in its dark age
DS3 while technically abandoned still had recently lived in monuments and areas and actual existing populations in the backround (Londor)

At first I really hated DaS2 for being so on the nose with the "haha Dark Souls reference haha Dark Souls was hard! prepare to die! haha!"

But then DaS3 did the same exact thing too and it pissed me off even more.

Are you that guy who keeps crying about Smash in every thread on Yea Forums for the last 40-45 mins?

I thought DS3's only sin in that regard was the "gimme your dark soul" quote from gael am I missing something?

>But then DaS3 did the same exact thing too
DaS3 wasn't pushing the "haha prepare to die >:)" like DaS2 did, but it did had a lot of DaS1 references that were starting to become tiring.

Spoken like a true redditor.

>the sense of decay and abandonment DS2 had was great
Yeah, it looked like it was abandoned mid-development.

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I CLAPPED, I CLAPPED AND I STILL CLAP EVERYTIME MY FAVORITE SPEED RUNNER REACHES IRITHRYLL OF THE BOREAL VALLEY IN DARK SOULS 3

THAT GAME IS TRULY A GEM OF OUR MODERN TIMES AND A BLESS FOR ALL THE SPEED RUNNERS I DONATE MONEY TO

It's just in From's nature to stop giving a shit at some point in the DLCs. Bloodborne gave us Laurence the Rehashed Cleric Beast and Dark Souls 3 gave us NPC without pants as bosses.

Maybe if you keep saying it it will come true

BASED

haha

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It's almost like a parody.

Agreed due to redditspacing but you're still a miserable fag

you joke but this literally happened

it's a cobbled together compromise game

I saw that coming from a mile away
but seriously
it got the dark age feel just right
almost everywhere you there is ruins
humanity is all but hollows with nearly no reprise of human interaction but the odd NPC
hell even Majula the hub is run down and the NPCs are already loosing their marbles unlike DS3 where you can actually see a stability in the world

Is DS2's story considered canon?

You son of a bitch

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It is a really solid game, the problem is that because is under the souls franchise all the spergs love to shit on it.
Change the name to obscure anima instead and its bretty good.
Also Alone and fume are great.
fags.

>DS1 has an epic tale and background before you create your character and delve into its world
>DS2 has an old lady saying that you're going to die a lot because muh difficult game, prepare to die! xd

lol

But seriously now... Americans really do that? Clap when they watch a movie?

indeed, when you face Vendrik for the first time and instead of an epic boss you find this shadow pathetic figure, it was amazing.
DS3 look better but has no soul.

Not during the movie but they clap at the end for some reason
Maybe they are thanking the guy who projected the film on the screen?

If they actually made an effort to remaster DaS2, tweak some of its problems (full red eye orbs, fix the BoB and WoB covenants), and fixed the horrible PS2 tier graphics, it would be by far the best Dark Souls game to date. But Miyazaki doesn't do it because he's jealous of that game. He can't take credit for it so he will never allow the team to perfect it.

I'm realy curious why ds2fags hate dark souls 3?

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build up your shit by tearing something else down. pretty simple really. dark souls 3 is a good target because it has flaws as well, although it's nowhere near the mess dark souls 2 was.

Because DS3 catered towards Japanese Souls fans while DS2 was basically about catering towards the West and their obsession over "PREPARE TO DIE XD". There was a lot of Bamco meddling in DS2 to the point where the director was fired halfway and replaced.

I forgot to say that I remember girls clapping and screaming when some dudes appeared shirtless in the second Hunger Games

Based projection bro. I hope they tip him, too.
I don't. I hate Demon's Souls.

I like all of the Souls games equally, suck my dick.

what

Yes

Yikes

amazing

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this but can i suck your cock? i'll use make up i promise.

Prepare to die! xD

Go ahead, princess

I’m American and I’ve literally never seen anyone clap at the end of a movie, with the exception of Star Wars: TFA

I don't know, to me DS2 needs more like a complete remake rather than a remaster.
>incoherent world design (a lava sea above Earthen Peak lol)
>broken AI
>soul memory mechanic
>8 directional movement snaps

Ayy, imagine watching Baywatch with them.

>>the Gang Squad
Easy
>>two frozen tigers
yeah, that's the only part i didn't gave a fuck and never completed
>>Smelter Demon with a blue tinge
Meh, the bad part was all the gauntlet before, i made them dissapear tho
>>Burnt Ivory King with his minions
You are wrong, bringing your own fags into the fight was amazing, and fromsoft still uses the long fall in that fight even in sekiro.

Worst Souls but not a bad game
However the graphics are garbage. What From usually puts 50 layers of blur on to hide how ugly it is, is just plain ugly in DkS2

>most SOUL one.

tf does that mean. game was an incomplete mess with shit bosses, fucking terrible hitboxes, and an uncountable number of painfully unbalanced areas.

DS3's repetition thing was at least deliberate. it was literally supposed to be that the world of ds1 had faded away into charred husks

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This i really liked some of the lore, the dlc were great and all
but holy shit this game was way too easy
unless you're some potato nigger who didn't put points in adaptability (its your fucking iframe) there is no way you can die or be stuck on a boss.
The game is so easy they have to spam ambush you the entire time

The RPG progression and methodical combat is superior to half-ass dodge spam with flailing enemies. If I wanted to play a shit spammy action game I'd play DMC2.

I don't mind the incoherent world design but that should t be too difficult to fix.

The AI is ok, I actually think it's better than DaS3 in some aspects, like for example the aggro on some enemies feels better, they don't seem to forget that you existif you hide behind a wall and chase for much longer.

SM is only a problem because it fucks with the summons but it isn't a problem if you just move on to NG+ or use the agape ring which imo adds a neat challange to the game (the only downside is the lack of consumables)

The 8 directional pad gives it a more Rpg feel to me. I dont like the hyper aggressive game style from Sekiro, BB and DaS3 too much. I want a comfy action rpg that allows me to breathe and think my steps ahead.

I ain't no DaS2fag it's my second least favorite one. But I like it more than 3 because both of them suck off DaS1's dick but at least DaS2 did it while not LITERALLY being Lordran again.

>roll right. get hit by nothing. staggered for 5 seconds.
>methodical

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Dark Souls 2 is an aberration. All the other titles in the series play significantly faster, dating all the way back to grandaddy Demon's Souls. They've never used that animation system in a game since because it was a failure and people definitively did not like it. It's a fight the small minority of players who prefer the way Dark Souls II played lost, and thank god for that.

>All the other titles in the series play significantly faster
DaS1 is slow as hell, go play it again.

>can't git gut
>repeated wojaks
checks out

Learn to take the hit boxes in account.

Soulposters are retards, pay them no mind.

you're a shitter and a fag, twin tigers is fuck amazing solo, Ivory is one of the best fights in the series and Blue Smelter is fun.

Gank squad is ok, good with buddies.

motherfucker I've played 3000+ hours of Dark Souls 1. There's WAY less delay after attacks than in Dark Souls 2.

Dark Souls 3>Demon's Souls>>Dark Souls>>>>>Dark Souls 2 in terms of speed.

Dark Souls 3 was probably too fast. In terms of pure pace of play Demon's Souls may have been best.

>talks about gitting gud in easiest ds game
>says "checks out"
checks out

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I liked it for the novelty of being a Stannis simulator.

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>wojak posting
>imitating posts as a response
Real life NPC.

DaS3 focused too much on what the fans wanted at the expense of what made the games interesting. In other words, you think you do but you don't.

I think Bloodborne is the best game in the series overall, but Dark Souls 2 is the one I actually enjoy playing the most. I enjoy playing Dark Souls 1 the least, even though it was the one I played first.

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>DS2 is the game that gave me most feels
this, fuck the haters

NOT!

Sekiro>BB>Souls Series (excepting DS2)>Demon's Souls>DS2

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B team is the real A team

Imagine being able to fight Vendrick in his prime in an Ashen Heart dream...

>redditspacing
oh god you're pathetic, sorry if Yea Forums isn't the only place where I post and I'm used to formatting my

fucking

post

anyway, like I said DS2 played like shit and it was easy, not to mention the fact that some levels make absolutely no fucking sense space wise, like that elevator from Harvest Valley to Iron Keep

but the sense of overall emptyness and despair
Aldia trying to become a furrydragon and break the cycle in some way
Kendrick literally marrying a goth thot and dooming all his kingdom
them flashback fighting giants

it's literally the only Souls game where I cared a lot about the lore, because with DS3 all you do is trying to figure out which character is the "reincarnation" of , and oh yes Anor Londo but now there's snow wew

never played Bloodborne because I hate Lovecraft, and god damn if I'll ever play Sekiro

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Tbh DaS3 didn't do away with any of the RPG progression. Yes you can roll away multiple times with a full bar but yes the enemies keep attacking 5~6 times so you're meant to roll rythmically with them more than once, which made some bosses like Pontiff, Dancer and Friede so good.

I agree, I think it might be my favorite.

>GAME WRITING

This, the emptiness helps as well while DaS3 felt like there was a lot of people living everywhere. The church felt stronger than any "institution" in DaS2

Reminder that according to the intro your character is canonically male. If you choose female you play as a tranny.

I dislike 3 because it's linear, has no build variety, and ignored all the cool things DaS2 introduced

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Demon's Souls > Dark Souls > Dark Souls 2 > Dark Souls 3

>based game punishes you for being a greedy ranged cuck

i see nothing wrong with it

Bloodborne > Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls = Dark Souls 2 > Demon's Souls
Unironically

>DS1 is great, obviously, but it's like the first episode in a great journey, it sets all the basic shit
>it sets all the basic shit

it didn't though. Demon's Souls set all the basic shit. Dark Souls added jumping, and stripped the unique bosses and music out and replaced them with bosses that do nothing but attack, and bombastic orchestral music that completely betray the atmosphere.

DS3 removed a lot of the good that DS2 brought and replaced it with nothing, also the invasions got a lot worse.

>Achievement unlocked: This is Dark Souls

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Demon's Souls' bosses were shit, and it had plenty of bombastic music.

Bad puzzle bosses are always the worst parts of the souls games.

Indefensibly stupid

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So underplayed and atmospheric
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Not at all bombastic

Why does her pee have healing properties?

>posting these examples without any sarcasm or irony
I can't even help someone as tasteless and braindead as you.

That's normal for girls.

Invasions are alright in ds3. They serve as a great method to gain embered status if you're playing through the game. Only reason people fondly remember ds1/2 invasions is because the multiplayer was so broken hosts could barely summon phantoms.

DS1 locked summons after invaders came in, so did DS2. DS3 allowed for endless fucking summoning loops and everyone had three fucking friends with them so invasions were godawful, not to mention the mechanics of combat also got so much worse. DS1 was a shitshow with the combat, sure, but it was a nuanced shitshow. DS3 is just rollcatches and fast weapons followed by resetting to neutral and chugging.

>DaS2
>hosts could barely summon phantoms
lol

>Des, DS1, DS2
combat is not the main focus, is kept simple and slow paced but still punishing enough to be engaging
>DS3
DUDE WHAT IF EVERY ENEMY ATTACKED LIKE 7 TIMES IN ROW AND EVERY BOSS HAD LIKE 3 PHASES XDD
JUST LIKE MY ANIMES
POGGERS

>he unironically likes tower knight
HA HA HA HA HA (bum bum) HA HA HA HA

>i better pick the loudest songs in the whole ost to prove him wrong!

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Pretty sure you can summon shades when you are invaded.

That being said. Fuck password phantoms. Shouldn't have a fucking fast rolling full Havels phantom at like lvl 35 or some shit

>those
>not bombastic
Sure, there are some subdued ones, but are you fucking deaf?

Password phantoms have shit for hp though. Oftentimes less than you're average normal summon.

no retard, this is bombastic.

>YEAH HIT EM WITH 70 INSTRUMENTS THAT NEVER FUCKING STOP AT ANY POINT IN TIME WHILE THE BIG BULL MAN SCREAMS NON-STOP

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this song, and boss alone, are a complete betrayal of the series was supposed to be, and it's the first boss you have to beat.

>outing yourself as an autistic sonybro

>what it was supposed to be

But they also have armor that completely invalidates your fucking hits and all the spells in the game. You don't have to normally worry about crystal soul spear out of nowhere at level 1.

>a complete betrayal of the series was supposed to be
So you know what the series was "supposed to be" better than its developers?

demon's souls was about being a little useless man in a horrible world filled with monsters. you barely scrape by, and choose to leave the horrible land behind, or become another demon.

>dark souls starts
>LOL YOU'RE THE CHOSEN ONE HERE'S THE KEYS TO YOUR CELL HERO. REMEMBER OBLIVION?

You literally aren't the chosen one though, you dumbass.

>So you know what the series was "supposed to be" better than its developers?

considering everyone says dark souls 2 is horrible, and 3 was a failure, yeah i guess. dark souls turned into the git gud meme.

>You literally aren't the chosen one though, you dumbass.

HMM

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And everyone says Demon's Souls was a half finished concept. Guess the whole game series was shit all along.

>Unironically trying to defend ds1 combat
Kek, talk about grasping at straws. If the host has three summons in ds3 a second invader can join the fight. Most of the times you just make sure to tip the scales in favor of the mobs. I'll admit that it's too easy for a host to just rollspam away from combat though, and if you don't have a quick weapon this can be abused.

demon's souls was salvaged from a project that was scrapped a bunch of times. it's a miracle that it worked out in the end.

Based and redpilled

All humans are descendants of the furtive pigmy, and any given undead who is strong enough to ring the bells would be praised as the "Chosen undead" by a couple of snakes who want you to either burn yourself or ignore the fire.

I remember invading as a lvl 40 character and had some gold phantom dude in smoughs armor firing out CSS with what i think was either the luck scaling staff or the faith scaling staff.

let's not pretend Demon's Souls had amazing bosses. Some were good, but some were really shit

dark souls 2 is greatly redeemed by the addition of bonfire aethics and the modified ng+ cycles, it makes it highly replayable and allows early players to get neat equipment early on if they have the gonads

>a second invader
And a blue. The mobs are non-threats once the host has two friends.

See every time I’m in thread there always has to be a snoynigger being obsessed about nintendies. It’s almost like you trannies let the autists live rent free and fetishize over it.

What the fuck was wrong with the people that made this game?

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B-b-but muh fume knight...

Wow, what good and not at all cherrypicked examples. How about we just stroll on down to the Ancient Forest in DS1.

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Burnt Ivory King is one of the best bosses in the series.

Woah, are you telling me a more recent game has more players than an older game? Shit bro.

god ds1 was so bad.

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DS2 is the best in the series at being an RPG
>spice let you access spells you wouldn't be able to otherwise
>adaptability means you can't have infinite i-frames and roll around like a jackass if you choose to wield heavy armor
>you can actually tank in co-op with the aggro ring
>miracles were viable
>you could play the numbers and optimize builds to such an extent that hasn't been seen in the other games
>equipment determining roll length is fantastic
>DS3 tried to copy it, but all it felt like was fat rolling and light rolling with no middle-ground
>actually have to play to the strengths of your gear while having actual downsides
>unlike the other games were you can do everything well
That alone makes it a lot of fun to replay

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>Ancient Forest
This is not an area in DaS 1
>cherrypicked
The entire game looks like shit

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Nah but an objectively better and entertaining game does.

demon souls is good because it's the old, busted, low poly version of the game we love.

Dark Souls is tight shit.

DS2 is the multiplayer version, that's ugly but is made to be played with friends.

DS3 is trash.

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Bloodborne and Demon's Souls actually look like those screenshots
That arena in DS3 is just grey floor outside of that cutscene and you know it
Anor Londo is absurdly bland but has great views
I think you're cherry picking

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>game was an incomplete mess with shit bosses, fucking terrible hitboxes, and an uncountable number of painfully unbalanced areas.
Lost me there. Why are we suddenly talking about DkS1?

You're trying to make it look bad and yet the worst area doesn't even look as bad as some in DaS 2

I forgot what dS2 pvp was like, was it a estus chugfest like dark souls 3?

Because DS1 has such a thriving playerbase.

Far from being the best, but I consider it a great game. I had fun for several hours.

youtube.com/watch?v=UScsme8didI
It's been almost 5 years. Where does the time go?

i agree

Precisely.

you're right, i am cherry picking because the other guy was cherry picking. mommy must have been so proud when you put the square in the square hole!

DkS3 is the only Souls game with more good bosses than shit bosses. This is an objective fact. Not counting Bloodborne there and never played it

No, it was the best it's been ever.

Obsessed

Estus use is VERY punishable for starters (slow startup and healing was slow instead of instant like in ds1 and 3).

>3 digits
>only a fragment of these people even do online play
oh wow pffhaha

It's even a great game.
>DaS1 is better so that means this is bad game
Yea Forumsirgins autism

>promo bullshot
>promo bullshot
>cutscene
>cutscene
>normal gameplay with the brightness slider turned all the way up
lmao retard

It's not cherrypicking when the entire game looks like someone smeared a turd on a canvas, brainlet

>I want my Dark Souls, too.
n1 miyahacki

DkS1 Remastered is the most recent release, user...

I wish DaS1 would look like that at release.

>Matthewmatosis only reaches moderate fame after shitting on DS2
>everyone watches it
>every single DS uploader EVER starts to shit on the game
>DS3 comes out
>even Oroboro admits the PvP sucks
>goes back to DS2
>Matthewmatosis reveals that he hates every DMC except for DMC1
>only uploads meme reviews on indie games that nobody will ever touch
>one of his fans says they're on the brink of quitting Sekiro because enemies can't hit their allies
>and Matthew agrees
>and DS3 still has the shittest PvP
>DS Remastered just updates the visuals and performance of a great game
>everyone bitches that they should've changed stuff
>but everyone knows that if they changed ANYTHING they would've bitched even harder
the Souls community is a joke and I regret that I associate with them after playing almost 3,000 hours of these games

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>And a blue
What do you mean? When a host uses dried fingers he can have 3 friendly phantoms (blue/yellow/white). The host can also be invaded by 2 hostile phantoms.

Heresy

>good bosses
>bad bosses
>objectivity
explain, what is a good boss and what is a bad boss

This, ds2 had/has phenomenal pvp and the balances to the game like making estus way slower worked to pvp advantage. Ds3 has gang fights which are pretty fun, but it's just too easy to run away and heal up and come back. People complain about the frames of ds2 but if you've played the game enough you get used to the differences.

Bloodborne and Sekiro have the best bosses in the series
The rest all have a solid mix of good and bad

Yes, and it probably has more people playing than the original, even though it is worse than the original.

>big dudes with swords rehash #87103
DaS3 has the most boring and least diverse bosses for me.

Based

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Those are all ingame graphics, brainlet. From doesn't use prerendered cutscenes.

Humanoid fights have always been and will always be the best fights in any From game.
Le big monsters will just end up being defeated by hugging their legs like always. Boring shit.

No, when the host uses a dried finger he can have three friendly phantoms and ALSO a blue. Without a dried finger, he can have two friends and two blues.

458905837
kill yourself with a rake

>people think that believing dark souls 2 was a good game and an awful soulsgame is a rare opinion

Wait no, I was wrong, he can have three friends, the blue only comes in after one of them dies. It's been a while.

>Muh e-celeb's word is gospel
Oro was just shit. He always uses crutch builds. There are plenty of competent ds3 invaders on youtube and I'm glad that ds3 weeded out the dumbfucks who just ran with the most broken builds.

I like it more than every souls game after it. Honestly the games just kept getting worse for me or maybe im just sick of the formula

DS2 is a shitty game

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based

Then why won’t ornifex let me drink her pee pee?

>every single soundtrack in DS3 is just over-the-top busy-as-shit orchestral mess
>DS2 out here hitting us with this
youtube.com/watch?v=Qg2IGTQsvZY
>mysterious and spooky tracks like Pinwheel, Nito, the Chariot and the Rotten will never return
>even the mix tracks with both spooky and epic, like Velstadt, missing
>every song is just LOUD, HARDCORE ORCHESTRA and CHANTS YEEEE

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Oh no, gameplay contrivances. Anything but that.

DS2 tried to differentiate itself the most, and feels like an incomplete game with horrible textures and empty, lifeless buildings. It is still a good game, just easily the worst DS as far as single-player goes. Not gonna argue pvp.

DS3 played it way safer and feels like the equivalent of The Force Awakens. Just nostalgic call backs in hopes of making fans happy. It doesn't try anything new but is way more polished and feels like a complete game. (I know they changed stuff last minute because they ran out of time, I'm just saying the game feels like it isn't in beta).

DS1>BB>>>DS3>>>>>>>>>>>DS2
Undisputed truth

Patrician.

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I never said his word was Gospel; I'm saying the opposite
Everyone listened to him, and Vaati, and Matthewmatosis, and EVERY Souls youtuber when they said DS2 was bad, and then DS3 came out and was the worst game in the series (to me) and even they abandoned the game after the honeymoon period

Finally an user with good taste, I'm so tired of shitters talking shit about based DS2.

Because eveyone knows the best part of these games are honorable pvp amirite? Fucking retard.

I didn't say they weren't in-game, fuckwit. You think they don't bump up the graphical settings for bullshots and cutscenes? Is this your first day playing videogames? Pic related: an "in-engine" screenshot that looks 10x better than the actual game running on real hardware.

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Never reply to me again faggot
Imagine thinking this turd is a good game lmao

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The best parts of every souls game is invasions.

> muh grafix

Yeah it has soul unlike Dark Souls 1 and 3 and Bloodborne.

Demon Souls and Dark Souls 2 are the only ones with Soul.

This, the bosses in ds3 are all fucking jumping around like fucking acrobats and the non human enemies just flail like spergs. The fucking giant crystal lizards like the one you find in the tutorial area is a perfect example of the latter.
The design is so shit that with it constantly moving it’s impossible to tell head from arms and therefore all of its tells are impossible to read. Who the fuck thought that having it completely covered in crystals was a good idea?

keep in mind ds2's playerbase is split in two

for a 5 year old game that has a sequel, it's pretty fucking active all things considered

>>DS Remastered just updates the visuals and performance of a great game
>>everyone bitches that they should've changed stuff
large part of the bitching was because the Remaster actually downgraded the visuals.
and they fucking charged $40 for it. for an old game with barely any changes.
>>only uploads meme reviews on indie games that nobody will ever touch
yes, he should review fortnite
>>one of his fans says they're on the brink of quitting Sekiro because enemies can't hit their allies
>>and Matthew agrees
yes, fuck trying to use your brain to your advantage

also
>playing almost 3,000 hours of these games
unironically kys

I agree, it's a fantastic game

Are you that one autistic DAS2 hater that's been in every thread since launch because this is all he lives for? You seem to be him.

>tfw i still havent played ds3

I was doing a bows only run in 2 that was fun. Dunno how 3 bows only runs would fare, but not being to powerstance crossbows in 3 is lame.

No, the best parts of these games are when the online and single-player mix
When DS3 mixes shit-ass PvP in forced areas like Anor Londo with annoying-as-fuck 70-hit-combo spastic enemies, the game becomes unfun
At least DS2's PvP was godlike and its PvE didn't get in the way of it
DS3 is not comfy, every PvPer just likes to wank themselves off and get mad at you if you heal and point down at you after they kill you with their anime edge build and then you go do some PvE and watch some lank spook nigga properly earrape you with LOUD SCREECHING sounds like every enemy in the game makes as you get permastunned and cucked out of the fun

Then you go back to DS2 and DS1 and it's a smooth, fun, clean experience
Bloodborne is also spooky and earrapey, but I could argue that Bloodborne is a horror game so it's not meant to be comfy

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DUDE BIG MAN IN ARMOR LMAO

>lure enemies out
>kill them
>hit lever
>run on the right side

yeah, the gate hitbox is total bullshit, but this entire scenario was preventable.

Dark Souls 2 is my favorite FROM game. However, it's important to remember that it wasn't directed by Miyazaki, and I think that's a part of the reason why people have beef with it. They went in expecting a Miyazaki game and they were disappointed.

The way I see it, Dark Souls 2 is like a spinoff of the souls series a la Bloodborne, and I think it would have been more aptly named "Giant Souls" instead.

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No Souls game has had enemies hit each other - very few games do that, period - if that's something someone considers grounds to quit a game, they're autistic

The point of the image was comparing the art style, retard.

Last boss is an evil queen who was clearly represented throughout the whole game

Last boss in Dark Souls 3 is one random charred boy

.

The enemies come out as you pull the lever, the point is you have to avoid all of them but still make it in time to get through the gate to skip a bunch of other enemies.

get help before you either yourself or someone

still better than Demon's Souls

>DAS2 hater
From the looks of it you are one pathetic DS2 cuckboy.

skeleton lords was my favorite in ds2. It's too good for the fight its used for

Yeah, you're definitely the guy.

they absolutely did but only in a few places which makes it even worse because it's not even consistent

Sorry to burst your bubble, but anyone that isn't an absolute brainlet know DaS 2 is a shitty game

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i know, i do this area the same way every time. hit the lever, kill everyone, hit it again, and just run past the gate.

>People are still seething about DS2 being hot garbage
Play an actual fighting game if you want your shitty pvp.

interestingly they were going to call the series " dark race" but decided against it due to obvious reasons. So i guess the dark race is the pygmy race

>Monster Hunter
DUDE BIG MONSTER AND BIG SWORD LMAO

>DOOM
DUDE DEMONS AND ANGERY MAN LMAO

>ZELDA
DUDE GREEN MAN WITH SWORD AND BAD GUYS LMAO

>DRAGONS DOGMA
DUDE ALL ROADS LEAD TO GRAN SOREN LMAO

>SEKIRO
DUDE SAMURAI LMAO

>WITCHER 3
DUDE DROWNERS LMAO

>realize that the only DS3 zones I like are the Irithyll Dungeon, Cathedral of the Deep, parts of the Painted World and the Ringed City, and the High Wall
>realize over 75% of the areas in DS3 I find myself saying "man, I hate this area"
>begin to have the realization that maybe the game is just not fun

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dark souls pvp's appeal is that it's a busted piece of shit that was never intended to work properly. that's why it's fun.

>he said a game wasn't his favorite so obviously this means he hates it
yikes
are you one of those autists who thinks that there's nothing between "best game ever made 10/10" and "worst game ever made 0/10"

I suppose it's only a coincidence you post the exact same images he did.

DaS2 haters more often that not just a bunch of losers who would rather tailgate on internet opinion, than have to git gud enough to beat another souls game.

You can't, you can't pull it twice.

No
I don't think DS2 is the best game ever made but it's a damn good one
Where did I say what you said, though?

no, i want to go through PvE content with an occasional PvP encounter with a dumbass

it adds to the fun for me

what even is the point of that WEBM? it shows a problem and right after that it shows that the problem can be fixed with one simple mod.

I might have saved them from 4channel.org

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Dark Souls 1 - Fellowship of the Ring
Dark Souls 2 - The Two Towers
Dark Souls 3 - Return of the King

Can't believe they had another shot for a good final boss in sotfs but managed to make an even worse fight than Nashandra.

DS2 was the darkest of the series

i guess i remember it wrong.

There's nothing wrong with the base-game deadzones
DS2 has always had a very different feel from the previous games; this is not a pro or a con
It's the same with Adaptability

you're just making shit up about how he hates every dmc game because he said dmc 1 was his favorite

That's the secret to beating those guys, they are dumb chimeras that were created by Aldia.

Very rare and very based opinion

I dislike the graphics, the weird weightless animations, the nonsensical prologue, the vagueness of the lore for the sake of being vague, the awful enemy and boss variety, the pathetic world and level design and top it off the shitty Dark Souls 1 callbacks that literally have no business being here. It's a pathetic excuse of a sequel and its cons far outweigh its pros. I didn't find the game hard, I found it not to my taste.

Did you watch his reactions to E3 2018?
When DMC5 was revealed he said that he hated how the gameplay is all about combos now, how he hated Dante's personality post-DMC2 (he even said #notmydante), how he hated the new music, how Kamiya should come back and save the franchise, etc.

I did watch it, you're just exaggerating.

Excecutioners Chariot's theme is pretty good.

youtube.com/watch?v=m3CTxI_zbeU

>Muh Honorable duels
>Not attempting to mess with peoples progress which is what the pvp was designed for in the first place

I never understood honorfags.

Shittiest fucking take you can possibly have.

sounds based but bluepilled

you dont need to cherry pick, if you even played the game you will see that repeating textures are commonplace in ds2

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b&r

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Except you would be able to deduce from his twitter post and from the game itself that he liked the game. DMCV respects DMC1 a lot, with a Dante very much close to this one aside from the WOOHOO of getting Cavaliere.

I really disliked the ivory king dlc. It felt too tedious. at least the final boss was cool

Yes, Darksiders 2 is a good game

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based

What did he post about DMC5? All he said was that he was playing it as far as I remember
I'm open to being proven wrong here

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Jokes on you your DS2 picture looks pretty bad.

Fuck the frigid outskirts

>The design is so shit that with it constantly moving it’s impossible to tell head from arms and therefore all of its tells are impossible to read.
how the fuck do you struggle fighting crystal lizards

I have the same issue, but with Dark Souls 1. I loved the game when I first played it, but looking back, I realize the only parts I actually recall fondly and would like to go back to are the Gaping Dragon, Anor Londo and the DLC bosses. Somehow, I like most areas and bosses in all the other games, but Dark Souls 1 I really just can't being myself to go back to regularly, if only for those few parts.

He's not saying they're hard, he's saying that the enemy has no obvious tells

It was meant to be a co-op area so it wasn't that for me since I did it with a friend

He's more tempted to review it than he thought he would be.

I laffed but DS2 is probably the most complete Souls game and the one with the most content.

DUDE 1 TO 3 HORIZONTAL SLASHES
DUDE AN OVERHEAD SLAM
DUDE A THRUST/LUNGE ATTACK
DUDE AN AOE EXPLOSION AND/OR POWERUP GIMMICK
THIS IS THE MOVESET OF HALF THE GAME'S BOSSES LMAO

What the fuck did he mean by this

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but they do?

I'm not gonna lie, the jank weirdness of DS2 is one of the reasons I love it so much
It's the epitome of video games

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Against lizards. is he retarded? The one thing that the enemy have a problem in that game was the enemy and bosses delaying their attacks to catch you off guard. Everything else was fair except for camera eating monsters like Midir.

Quantity doesn't mean quality

In this thread we list things that make Dark Souls 2 the best Souls game. I'll start:

>Non-linear first half of the game allows you to rush straight to the areas of the game that contain the items for your build

>Chugging Estus immobilizes you, and the heal isn't instantaneous meaning trying to chug while someone is sticking close to you will result in death

>Stamina regeneration is tied to weight, so a character at 10% burden will recover their bar faster than a character at 70% burden, giving an advantage and a reason to make a low burden character

>Poise exists and armor provides relevant, but not overpowering damage reduction, giving an advantage and a reason to make a high burden character

>Phantoms and Dark Spirits cannot chug estus, spirits can only heal via spell useage which is slow. This makes fighting outnumbered even without mob assistance possible since any damage you do sticks

>Can only perform four rolls before running out of stamina

>Can only perform 5 attacks of a rapier or straight sword before running out of stamina

>Parrying has longer recovery frames and consumes more stamina, making parry fishing riskier and makes parrying require higher skill

>Power stance allowing for unique combinations of dual wielding and unlocking an alternative moveset for weapons

>Being able to use the full moveset of a weapon in your off-hand including running, rolling, backstepping, etc. attacks rather than just being able to do a basic R1 swing and blocking with the weapon as it is in Ds3 (lmao who would ever want to weapon block)

>Bell Tower covenant providing two unique optional areas to PvP for Titanite Chunks, Slabs, and Twinkling, making farming for upgrades fun

>Bonfire ascetics to replay bosses you like and or gain items from NG+ and beyond without grinding through the whole game again

>No bonfire and no death challenge where you can beat the game without resting at a bonfire or dying to gain a reward and bragging rights

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the least amount of people like das2. that makes it the patrician choice.

based

That's how Yea Forums works right?

kek
based

Its just astonishing how you can hate this awesome game just because its not a Victorian fairy tale with silly epic shortcuts,roll to win,mlg pro tryhard invasions,retarded Ai you could rape and glitch through
you retards wanted a carbon copy of DS1

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Why does 2 take place in a magic underwater portal land

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>roll to win
>retarded Ai you could rape and glitch through
I love DS2 but it has both of these problems.

11/10

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>indeed, when you face Vendrik for the first time and instead of an epic boss you find this shadow pathetic figure, it was amazing.
I thought DS3 was the one ripping off DS1.
Which is it?

Amerifag here, I used to work at a movie theater and I've never seen anyone clap for a movie except for that SW movie

They're noth both ripping off DS1 which was ripping off Demon's Souls.

>capeshit

which was ripping off king's field which was ripping off wizardry which was ripping off d&d which was ripping off star wars which was ripping off the art of war

GAS GAS GAS!

I meant the "pathetic figure instead of epic final boss" part.

I've been in a theater where people would clap and talk like retards during the movie twice and both times it was during a marvel movie. I guess it mostly happens with summer blockbuster shit like that.

>Make a wrong move in DS1
You actually get punished because you fucked up

>Make wrong move in 2 onward
S'all good, bro just mash the roll button.

That's Demon's Souls though. Gwyn can still kick your shit in if you can't parry reliably.

Ah yes, because Dark Souls 3 is the pinnacle of quality

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Well it's more about the way he's introduced. No cutscene, no loud/epic music, nothing. Just a guy with a flame sword.

should have been called king's field V, desu

I think 1 has some soul, definitely not as much as Demon's Souls though. (demon is possessive in the title, Demon's get it right reeeeee) and 2 was chock full of soul and creative ideas. Fucking loved 2 more than 1 as soon as I had started playing it.

I went in expecting a decent game and got a stitched together frenkenstein mess. fuck off with this shit.

DS2 had a Nitzer Ebb trailer so it's fine with me.

upvoted

hmm nice reddit youtuber opinion, i give your opinion a 8/10

I guess Demon's Souls is a "stitched together, frenkenstein mess" too because of the disconnected areas.

>b-but dark souls 3
lmao

correct

you're a disingenuous faggot, but you knew that already

Estus took fucking forever, had an obvious animation, and healed at a noticably slower rate. Trying to chug Estus mid-fight was extremely punishable.
DaS2 PvP was probably my favorite, Hexes aside.

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Demon's Souls doesn't try to pretend it has a logical connected world.

I wish Throne Watcher and Defender were a little better.

Darklurker was cool though.

>his opinion is centered around PvP

if you played a souls game for pvp "dueling" your opinion and brain are invalid. the pvp has always been complete and utter shit OUTSIDE of invaders griefing people that are just trying to conquer PvE areas (what it was intended for in the first place you autistic fucks)

>tfw doing an agape ring run
>tfw only level 30
>tfw I have to complete Amana Shrine next, the fucking spookie land to get the kings ring and then Aldias Keep (the trolls are harder to get through than the boss in that area)

It's the third time I do this. this game has to be my most played game yet.

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>he pvp has always been complete and utter shit OUTSIDE of invaders griefing people that are just trying to conquer PvE areas (what it was intended for in the first place you autistic fucks)

My nigger. fuck morons who treat Dark Souls like a fighting game

>MR. GOLDBERG, BERNSTEIN, CAN'T YOU SEE
>I FUCKED YO BITCH IN AN AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA
wtf Jeff Mangum

Good thing I won't have to defeat Aava this time

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>DS1 is great, obviously, but it's like the first episode in a great journey, it sets all the basic shit
Fuck you too, you retarded nigger. DS1 was so perfectly concise and self-contained. Everything they slapped on later was either pointless shit that added nothing and lead fucking nowhere or shit that retroactively made the original worse.

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>b-but dark souls 2

Yes, this is a thread about Dark Souls 2

when people say das2 has the best pvp they mean it has the best duelfaggotry.
regularly invading without cheating in 99 cracked red orbs is fucking cancer in ds2.

its cum

It takes effort like everything in DaS2

But yeah I agree. In a way Das kinda ruined the invasion scene of its sequel. Becaue to From Soft, the twinkling faggots had to be punished.

People only hate DS2 due to Miyazaki, they usually are a bunch of hypocrite.

Is incredible that a Team B game is way better than a team A with the franchise creator, i'm speaking with you Bloodbronie and DS3

DS2 is a piece of shit.

Shut up you retarded ESL

Even the message system was better in DaS2.

Horse but hole
Nice job, Skeleton
Woman ahead therefore try holding with two hands

It has by far the most soul

such butthurt user

I agree Dead Space 2 was mediocre compared to the first game.

How many languages can you speak?

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don't give up, skeleton!

for the record I posted this and I love DaS2, I just think PvP is the last reason to love it.

3

Old ladies laughing the entire time as if the entire game's premise was a Joke.

Absolute Pottery

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the entire game is a joke, so I guess that is kino.

Listening carefully
,
Skeleton

DS2 is the best souls game by far. if you disagree you're literally retarded

Same shit people shat on DS2 for, referencing the First game too much for their taste.

>playing DS1 as my first souls game
>beat tutorial boss first try, easy as fuck
>reach first actual boss
>small as fuck arena, not much space to dodge beyond i-frames
>to refight the boss you have to go through a really long area with so many enemies that you are guaranteed to at least take a hit
Am I missing something?
And if I'm not, did more people have trouble with this or am I just a shitter?

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Based schizoposter

For one, I agree.

DaS2 on the Switch never ever.

Feels bad man

all bosses are hard when you first fight them
also dodge into attacks, not away

You need to go up the ladder and jump in top of the boss. Takes about a quarter of his health off depending on what level you are. That guy is easy.

I only started playing DS2 two weeks ago. I like it but it's way too easy, too many bonfires everywhere

and that's why Solaire is too good for Smash

demon's souls was the only game with good checkpoint placement. you had to start the whole level over unless you found a shortcut, making them actually meaningful. it became ridiculous immediately with dark souls.

It has the hardest to reach bonfires out of all the souls games imo

Doesn't even matter if there are more bonfires. Some bonfires even require you to waste fragrant branches.

DS2 is a great game

Darksiders II

DS3 has 3-5 times the playerbase of both versions combined on any given day and came out 3 years ago. DS2 was a dead scene after a couple of years. I guess its orb-less, soul memorified, muh iron keep bridge duels bad pvp wasn't enough to keep any version afloat

Yeah. My father dragged me out to Star Wars 6 and everybody clapped when Rey started beating Kylo in their lightsaber duel.

Dark Souls 1 shortcuts are meaningful, they literally connect entire different areas you retard.

Well, FOR ME its not the best, but it is a good game indeed

yeah that's super cool until you get the "teleport everywhere" item in 5 hours.

bloodborne did it pretty well too. if I remember correctly levels like central yharnam and the forest only had a single lamp at the start

Why do people pretend any of the souls games have good soundtracks?

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It's not great but it's not nearly as bad as people here claim. Also Majula is the comfiest of the hubs from all the games and it's not even close.

cathedral of the deep and grand archives do it too.

I want to comfort Alsanna

It has flaws like every game but the pros outweigh the cons

2fags and 3fags should stop fighting each other and work together to fight their common enemy, the 1fags

I'm a des, das, bb and das3fag tho

Except you can't teleport everywhere.

DeS *still* has the best atmosphere, bar none.
DS2 has the most content and an actual reason to go do NG+ and beyond.
DS1 has a great interconnected world with cool secrets, comfy areas and kino fights.
DS3 is a cashgrab and not really a souls game.
I beat DS3 maybe 5 times and it's my least liked one because it's linear design, turbofast combat and boring weapons.
DS3 is homogenized and bland. Fight me

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t. False flagging DS3 fag

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you can kindle bonfires for 10 estus right off the bat

Overall we can all agree DS2 is lackluster somewhat "opaque" compared to other entries, that said the game isn't completely bad and deserves some praise.

This. DS2 had more atmosphere than every other from game combined.

ignore as many enemies as possible, which may or may not be all of them i can't quite remember

but yes the runs back to bosses are typically horrible in dark souls 1 and 2.

It didn't, DS2 rode the hypetrain from DS1 and at first people were blinded by it, but the level and enemy designs were unbearable that's when it started to get a bad rep.

Orma and Reeves > Giant Door shield

Not really.

You really can't let DS2 have anything, can you?

I don't see how people can say DS2 is the most atmospheric when it was a blatant soulless cash grab.

It's the Fallout 3 of the Souls series.

it deserves nothing

>but it's the most SOUL one.
3 unironically has more soul than the turd that was 2

yikes

Dark souls 2 has no fucking red eye orb and therefore has the shittiest pvp. Fuck off you retarded cunts

>muh build diversity

Wow congrats you have 200 different weapons with the same animations

You what I hate about those big dogs in The Gutter/Aldia's Keep?

When you go to their side and they swipe at you, but you get hit even before the startup of the swipe animation...

I think das2 is an important stepping stone for fromsoft, they learned a lot from it and bloodborne in 2015

if you look at sekiro it's incredible the same company made the same game, the level of polish has improved esponentially, especially in their PC versions that are near flawless even compared to devs that have made PC game ports for years, if you remember how fucking retarded their first dark souls PC attempt was, it was just pathetic

vendrick has the best voice actor in souls, it's the same guy that did marvellous chester and Djura, but when he did Vendrick he fucking KILLED it

>seek strenght, the rest...will follow

still got chills man

it literally was, they fired the director, replaced it with tanimura and then repurposed all the scrapped assets into the most cohesive stuff they could do, unfortunately half of it was alpha shit like the skybox of earthen peak that still had no volcano in the back so the meme about the elevator was born

Hear, hear.
youtu.be/McofBOpPw40?t=151

lmao that gavlaan pic

>Wheel and deal ahead, but friend!

>shadow is not cast, but born of fire
>and the brighter the flame, the deeper the shadow
>inherit the fire and harness the dark, such is the call of a true leader

god fucking damn it I can't believe they ditched this plot, the ending when you achieved the ultimate crown that prevented true hollowing and let you be a real immortal that was implied to go find a new answer to the cycle of light and dark, it was such a hopeful note for the series, and then dark souls 3 fucking squandered it all for that meme about pigmy lords (yeah now they are plural and they have a fucking city with an extra child of gwyn because why the fuck not let's add more unnecessary clutter like the god damn angels and pus of man coming out of dragons

>There was suppose to be a boss fight in Things Betwixt

I wish they kept the original director instead of Bamco meddling with the game halfway through...

Vendrick best voice.

good PvE balance, no more oneshotting midgame bosses at SL10 and a high variety of viable builds
spell casts can be replenished with use items, by far the best spell replenish system of the trilogy

Now I need to play SOTFS again

Yup

I remember estus were a literal death sentence during certain bosses, it took 3 hours to drink one and if an enemy was close you would need to chug 2 quickly to offset the incoming damage

in dark souls 3 the bosses can barely keep up with your healing, if you scrunge for all the shards only at low HP you will have trouble with anything

I had fun with it.

Burnt Ivory King was one of the best characters in the souls series, along with Artorias

I also liked Zullie and Alva's story.

>No Drakekeeper Greathammer weapon art where your stamina bar triples and can cancel your attack recovery into another attack but makes you walk slowly

Woould pay for this DESU

wrong

Frigid outskirts is the worst area in any modern from software game. Fuck that place.

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I think its a great game but is worse than any other game FromSoftware has made in the last 15 or so years.

Calling the arguably weakest Souls game Fallout 3 is odd when Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 exist.

kill yourself

Fuck off. Easy.

Aava is piss easy too. You got two summons.
The real challenge is the Brume Tower.

you deserve this

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this, I like it more as a normal adventure around rpg than the other games

And it's the game in the series that force you to think before making a move as your resources are limited. You can't farm infinitively, your equipment actualy breaks in this game so no banging weapons against walls please, and if you want to be a twinkling faggot, you better think ahead 5 to 10 steps before doing anything. As an error could spell the end of that playthrough. This makes the game extremely challanging but also rewarding once you achieve your goals.

I don't even care about item duping in DaS1 and 3... Your resources are infinite in that game. Even the slabs can be farmed.

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>Playing and invading as a glass cannon INT sorcerer in DS2 was fun
>DS3 sorcerers make me want to neck myself.

Different builds actualy feel different whereas builds in DS3 can be a bit 'samey'

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kek

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DaS2- an action rpg
DaS3- curazeeeexdddd

Fume Knight is much harder btw.

Yeah, that's a last gen game. What about it?

Gael being THE final boss of the series rubbed me the wrong way...

I actually enjoyed the setting and the ending.

I think it's a fitting end. He was brilliant boss in my opinion. Just wished there was more to his lore.

gael is the most appropriate final boss for dark souls

It's so embarrassing how archaic DSII looks in comparison to III.

technically soul of cinder is still THE final boss of the series

I see that DaS2 is currently in its Redemption arc. I like it.

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>last gen
>a 2014 game
DaS2 has some pretty terrible visuals.

>DS2 fans bitch about DS3 ripping stuff from DS1
>the second boss of the game is literally a fucking copy paste from DS1

Bravo, Vince.

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As a person that locked over than 800h on both and ended up enjoying DaS2 more, I honestly don't care.

Dark Souls didn't need to turn into that hyper aggressive particle festival that DaS3 turned out to be.

das2fags making daily circlejerk threads for a year doesn't elevate the game from trash.

>this post is what the typical DS2 apologist ACTUALLY thinks

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>One optional boss
vs
>Several NPCs, areas, lore, items, undoing all good shit from 2 to going back to 1 (like using multiple items from the inventory without having to open it again, powerstancing, complete movesets of the left hand weapon, etc)

BB=Sekiro>DS3>DS1>DeS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>dog shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DS2

ftfy

>LITERAL plebbitor
>likes DS2

Checks out

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I can nitpick too.

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>WHEN I SAW GUT-I MEAN GAEL DO THE COOL MOVE WITH THE PARTICLE EFFECTS I LITERALLY CLAPPED

I liked Bloodborne's fast paced gameplay, but yeah, that kind of gameplay does not fit the souls series in my opinion

How should I play with keyboard controls?

Look at all these salty DS3 niggers coping.

DS2 #1

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DS2 can be very enjoyable if you forgive its flaws.
I'm replaying it currently since I never got to play the DLCs. So far the best one was Sunken City. I didn't like Ivory King that much and I'm doing Eleum Loyce now. I understand I have to find some knights, but running around the castle having to fight the same enemies again+ backstabbing bitches makes me not want to play any more.
The hitboxes are, for some reason, very hit or miss. The Fume Knight has excellent hurthboxes on his sword... until he doesn't. You can easily dodge his sword swings if you stand at the part where they go over you, which is impressive, but then at the same time you'll be hit with his stab attack even though you're to the left or right of him and very much out of the way of his sword.

More like Bloom Souls 3

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Whats a good SM range to be summoned by the Looking glass Chad?

DS 2 might be unironically my favorite because I could downgrade the graphics to potato tier and play at 60 fps like nothing, graphics aren't really important for a game like this even if I loved how sweet DS 1 could look sometimes.
DS 1 I've been able to play sometimes on my laptop, and some other times my laptop died or the game simply stopped functioning well since it was a bad port, but DS 2 I can just launch it and go full potato if need to be. More games should have the ability to low specs this much.

Though I don't remember many bosses from DS 2, could it be a point against it? I remember the final boss being some creepy lady with a scythe but she wasn't that strong... a giant dragon that instakilled the whole area with fire... and an area full of creepy dark creatures in caves with the boss being inside a pirate ship. And I think I also went to the past to fight a giant king? Trying my hardest and I can't think of anyone else while I know every single DS 1 boss.

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You people are genuinely retarded, seek help

They tried to do that fight in DaS3. kek

It always goes the same way. You either gank a dude with your npc or get ganked by his summons.

I don't get the sudden hatred for particle effects from DaS2fags.

Has the "MMORPG enemies" image been posted yet

Your experience was the norm. 2 has 42 bosses and like 5 are good.

>>>>

i'm still unsure myself. the castle is accessible after 1 million souls regardless if the old four ones are slain, so going by red eye soapstone 1.75 mil would be ideal. but maybe the summoning works by red eye orb boundaries?

i meant to upload this fuk

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ornstein 2.0, looking glass, froggo, rat boyz, rat queen, spider, rotten, rolling fatass, medusa with poison, dragon #1, vendrick, guy with the bell hammer, giant, giant king, pursuer, and then all the DLC bosses. Probably 20+ not in this list

Right I just remembered. My biggest point against DS 2 is how easily you could infinitely farm the Giant King of the past and rack up in souls until you got bored. It was hard not to abuse it and my character ended up being overpowered and good at everything. A weapon needs more str? Dex? Whatever? I'm an ace at everything.

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BASED

The areas are harder than most of the bosses.

>le jank is funny i like it haha xD bazinga

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You must not do much spear fights. The rare organized party that knows how the fight works will wreck you, yes. But most people are retarded and don't know you have massive poise the more summons there are. As long as you're not a glass canon you should have no problem with summons.

>everyone, even fans, agree Nashandra is a shit final boss
>DLC adds a new final boss who's even worse

DS2 might be completely unique in that regard.

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Imagine the Dark Soul

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Nice legs.

DS2 was peak souls youtube

youtube.com/watch?v=J35QjHUM4Do

A lot of that has to with the shit level design/general jankiness ot the game.

looks like my aunt

I'm not a glass Canon, in fact my character is so tanky I often clean the fight clubs. I'm really glad I did that build.

But when everyone and their mother carries two great swords infused with lightning, you go against 3 guys, end up getting staggered and worn out pretty fast

DS2 is my favorite. Played Demon to DS3 in order. The variety of builds, especially from someone who enjoys magic builds, was awesome. Main game is okay, DLC shines though.

Dark Souls is the most solid souls game. I'd still play 2 first because it's got so much content and better PvP that it's easily the most replayable souls game.

Bloodborne is superior in every aspect to every souls game except for options, which DS2 wins out on.

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2 definitely beats 3 in that regard. Magic was complete trash in 3.

>Cherrypicked pic of the worst area vs the best area of each game
>DS1 still looks better

You can't make this shit up

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Wait I like this, you put it nicely. I'm not a DS2 hater but I didn't know why I liked it. There was more focus on the lore I think and it truly felt apocalyptic, or post apocalyptic to say so. You slowly get all those hints and stuff about the king marrying a reincarnation of Mundus or whatever Nashandra was, the shard things, the mad king sealed away somewhere, the giants flashback...

Honestly I don't remember if it's the same world as DS 1, I think we're set in a different kingdom, but when playing it I felt like I finally understood the full story of dark souls. DS 1 is more philosophical and doesn't get into much details about what's going on with the place and its people. Arthorias trying to save the world from the abyss is a nice thing, but it's like DS 2 is full of stuff like that.

>he posted it AGAIN

The absolute state of DS2 fags

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It's not a duel or a fight club, the same tactics won't apply. Protect your painting guardian as much as you can and use him to pick off distracted phantoms. Ignore the host unless he goes in for a hit, in which case give him a love tap to force him to back off, but don't pursue. You want to pick off phantoms. If it starts as a 4v1 and you pick off one of them you already have a pretty good advantage. Get rid of two and you've all but won.
There's also some fun regen faith tank builds you can make that can prolong the fight.

DS and DS3 don't even feature guest appearance by Venom kek

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That's what I use.

A SL125 Faith/Luck with Blessed weapon, two chimes, anri sword, oak shield. And I wear a lot of Armour so I can trade blows with great swords and actually win.

>Make a glass cannon stealth magic build
>boost nothing but int
>get magic boosting rings and that weird dusk crown and magic boosting cleric candlestick and all that shit
>Sneak up on some host
>Fire that CSS
>only does 65% or so of his health

I felt ripped off...

This is peak Dark Souls aesthetics.

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>awful looking character pictures with the most cancerous boss in Souls history

What did he mean by this?

>gives you ages to respond to each of his attacks
>harder
Give this man a one way trip to Copenhagen.

>oak shield
use a blessed great shield

you need to combo that css with a homing soul mass

t. Can't beat the Ancient Dragoon
ahah

>I could downgrade the graphics
>pic unrelated
Looks like stock DaS2 to me :^)

>38 strenght
That's 11 more points than what I run on that build. Can't do.

It would also be too heavy for my character I bet. My build is fine.

Ds2 at least had some color unlike ds3. Majula was super comfy. Also fur and capes. I don’t remember if da3 had cape action.

Actually.. yeah. I always played it like that thinking it was my shitty laptop trying its hardest to play it by downgrading it, but I've been looking at pics on this thread and the quality isn't much better.

I don't care about graphics but I can see how a specsfaggot would have issues with it.

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Pretty sure Homing Soul Mass would give me away.

I did, just took 10 minutes and was mind numbingly tedious, hence "the most cancerous boss" thing. Even 2cat lmao is better.

New thread when

make one

Most based reply I've ever seen

disagree

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What piss me off the most is how 3 didnt integrated the good things from 2

>infusions outside raw, refined or sharp suck dicks
>all infusions in 2 are worth using
>you can even infuse boss weapons
>bonfire ascetic gone
>if you want copies or fight the bosses again you have to play the horrible slog of ng+
>armors with special effects gone
>back to boring rings instead of the DS2 rings
>you cant use weapons in the hand you want
>magic and miracles suck dicks

Just did. Not the best OP but whatever. I hope it's not deleted

What build are you even using that it would take you ten minutes to kill him.
He has a lot of health, but not THAT much health.

rather based and sufficiently redpilled